Something Like Now
(Nocturne)
Rating: 7
US release date: 30 August 2005
by Robert R. Calder

If the brothers Moutin pay heed to such notices as this, they might be grateful to some of the irritations attendant on the present reviewer's life when he began his attention to their new CD. I am extremely grateful for their having put together a set of performances so wonderfully resolved. Things can work out!

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this quartet is incredibly tight after a fashion which raises the phrase maximum efficiency. 

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Lots of unpredictable things happen during this close to an hour of music. 

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Francois Moutin is the one melody instrument player whose does any extended deliberately virtuosic performance, but that very often in providing support. (...) Margitza and de Bethmann are allowed remarkable relaxation.

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